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What People Do to Avoid Poverty
The French title of Maigret and the Fortuneteller is Signé Picpus and in English it is also known as To Any Lengths. In this 1944 mystery by Georges Simenon, after Mademoiselle Jeanne, gazer into crystal balls, is murder… -
Adventure on a Mountain Peak
Andrew Garve (born Paul Winterton, 1908 - 2001) was known for his thrilling adventure stories set in places like Turkey and the USSR. In The Ascent of D-13 (1968), climbers from both sides of the Cold War are sent to ret… -
Oh, My Furs and Whiskers!
Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery) did not write many mysteries but he is still in print and remembered for his locked room mysteries a la John Dickson Carr, elaborate set-ups a la Dorothy Sayers, and a quirky dete… -
Chez les Flamands
Up to 1934 Georges Simenon wrote a dozen or so detective novels starring Inspector Maigret. Then he gave M. a vacation until 1942. Maigret and the Flemish Shop, written in 1932, begins with M. arriving in a town on the F… -
L'Inspecteur Cadavre
In Inspector Cadaver (aka Maigret's Rival), a 1944 mystery by Georges Simenon, an examining magistrate asks Maigret to pursue an unofficial investigation concerning his sister’s family in the fictional village of Saint-A… -
Erudite Mystery
Sir John Appleby, Michael Innes' detective series hero, plays only a cameo role in An Awkward Lie, a 1971 thriller. Playing the hero is his son, Bobby. Getting in a round of golf before breakfast, he discovers a dead guy… -
"My Most Horrible Plot Yet"
Ross Macdonald won the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger award in 1965 for his detective novel The Chill. Starring the series hero Lew Archer, this mystery is among the best that Macdonald wrote: The Galton Case (1… -
Another Last Phase Maigret
Maigret and the Loner by Georges Simenon was first published in 1971 as Maigret et l'homme tout seul. It was translated by Eileen Ellenbogen and published in 1975. It is set in the muggy summer of 1965, perhaps because f… -
Perry Mason Lobs Another Bombshell
In The Case of the Reluctant Model (Erle Stanley Gardner, 1962) millionaire collector of pictures Otto Olney wants to sue art maven Colin Durant for slander, claiming that Durant is saying that a painting purchased by Ol… -
Maigret and The Haint
Simenon wrote Maigret et le fantôme in 1963. It was translated by Eileen Ellenbogen as Maigret and the Ghost in 1976, but the edition titled Maigret and the Apparition is the most commonly found. In this late-career Maig…
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